Recent Publications

  • "Stepmother, Not Mother, Mother

    Published in Fractured Lit

    November 25, 2024

  • "Lollipop Kiss"

    Published in JMWW

    September 20, 2024

  • "We Might've Been Kings"

    Published in JMWW

    September 20, 2024

  • “You Work at the Worst Diner in Existence That's Always Open for Business”

    Published in X-R-A-Y Litmag

    September 9, 2024

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Micro Fiction (1-300 words)

November 25, 2024 — “Stepmother, Not Mother, Mother”Fractured Lit.

September 20, 2024 — “Lollipop Kiss”JMWW

March 1, 2024 — “Seaworthy”Moon City Review

October 30, 2023 — “Role Model”ASP Bulletin

Flash Fiction

September 20, 2024 — “We Might’ve Been Kings”JMWW

September 17, 2024 — “The Leaving” — Black Lily Issue 02

September 9, 2024 — “You Work at the Worst Diner in Existence That's Always Open for Business”X-R-A-Y Litmag

August 1, 2024 — “To All the Boys We Never Kissed”South Florida Poetry Review (SoFloPoJo)

July 24, 2024 — “The Woman Inside”Necessary Fiction

March 1, 2024 — “Close: A Father/Daughter Breakup Defined” — Moon City Review

November 6, 2023 — “Gentlemen Callers”Fractured Lit.

October 30, 2023 — “Can I Take Your Order”ASP Bulletin

October 27, 2023“Call Me Verdean”Five South Lit.

September 30, 2023 — “Within the Orphan Village”Lumiere Review

September 23, 2023 — “Breaker Boys”ette review

September 15, 2023 — “I Keep My Orgasms to Myself”Surely Mag

September 7, 2023 — “Salt”Milk Candy Review

Short Stories

April 10, 2024 — “Trebuchet” Electric Literature’s The Commuter

Interviews

Awards/Nominations

“To All the Boys We Never Kissed” — SoFloPoJo — Nominated for Best Small Fictions, 2025

“We Might’ve Been Kings” — JMWW — Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, 2026

“Within the Orphan Village”Lumiere Review — Selected for Wigleaf Top 50 (2024)

These Worn Bodies Moon City Press — Winner of 2023 Moon City Press Fiction Award

“Bite”SmokeLong Quarterly — Finalist for The SmokeLong Workshop Prize, 2023

“Like Real Women Do”Okay Donkey Magazine — Nominated for Best Small Fictions, 2023

“Role Model”Alan Squire Publishing — Nominated for Best Microfictions, 2023

“Black Bottom Swamp Bottle Woman”The Rumpus — Nominated for the O’Henry Prize, 2023

“Sugar, Baby”Five South Lit — Nominated for Best of the Net, 2023

Publications as K.B. Carle